Actor Michael Douglas Says Oral S*x Caused His Throat Cancer

Legendary actor Michael Douglas said oral s*x caused his throat cancer. Coming off a stellar performance as Liberace in biopic “Behind the Candelabra,” he told the UK Guardian it wasn’t the years of drinking and smoking that led to his cancer, but “this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which comes about from cunnilingus.”

Douglas, the husband of Catherine Zeta Jones, continued: “I did worry if the stress caused by my son’s incarceration didn’t help trigger it. But yeah, it’s a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer. And if you have it, cunnilingus is also the best cure for it.”

The actor, now 68, was diagnosed with cancer in August 2010, following many months of oral discomfort. But a series of specialists missed the tumour and instead prescribed antibiotics. Douglas then went to see a friend’s doctor in Montreal who looked inside his mouth using a tongue depressor.

“I will always remember the look on his face,” Douglas has previously said. “He said: ‘We need a biopsy.’ There was a walnut-size tumour at the base of my tongue that no other doctor had seen.”

Shortly afterwards he was diagnosed with stage four cancer (stage five is death) and embarked on an intensive eight-week course of chemotherapy and radiation. He refused to use a feeding tube, despite his palate being burnt on account of the treatment, and so lost 20kg (45lb) on a liquids-only diet. “That’s a rough ride. That can really take it out of you,” he told the Guardian. “Plus the amount of chemo I was getting, it zaps all the good stuff too. It made me very weak. Source: Guardian

I would have guessed Michael Douglas would have wanted to keep what he does in the bedroom private, but you have to give him some credit for talking about the human papillomavirus and its implications.